 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 16by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon -rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1864 - 508 pages
...-that drew from Emerson that note, we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1864 - 332 pages
...this that drew from Emerson that note we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elemente! Give me health amV a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Xot less excellent, except for our lese susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, lust evening,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be rny England of the senses and the understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...ranges freely over her clear horizons, and he leaps up elastic under her light atmosphere, exclaiming, ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.' Carlyle is a Germanized Scotsman, living near the roar of our great metropolis, with memories of Weimar... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 pages
...Heywood. Its images never return to my memory but I wish to hold them there awhile. Emerson says: — "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." If men had their eyes open to the beauties and uses of those elements which are open to all alike,... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 254 pages
...Misshapes the beauteous forms of things : We murder to dissect. WORDSWORTH. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ? Give me health and...day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. EMERSON. WHEN up some woodland dale we catch The many-twinkling smile of ocean, Or with pleased ear... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 pages
...things : We murder to dissect. WOKDSWORTH. How does Nature deify U3 with a few and cheap elements J Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. EMERSON. WHEN up some woodland dale we catch The many-twinkling smile of ocean, Or with pleased ear... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please... | |
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